KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
Two people died and three were wounded in a shooting after a cockfi ght at a Maili property off Kaukamana Road late Friday night, according to neighbors and the Honolulu Police Department.
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I am sickened by the apparent continued animal cruelty becoming, apparently, endemic here. To be clear, there are hundreds of thousands of responsible residents who love and cherish our animal ohana.
The latest story on cockfighting, resulting in three with serious injuries and two deaths (“2 killed in shooting after Maili cockfight,” Star-Advertiser, April 17), highlights this so-called cultural tradition, which is nothing more than an often police-protected venue for gambling, drugs and illegal firearms.
Our Hawaiian “cultural traditions” do not mean animal abuse, which includes such unthinkable practices as tethering/chaining “guard dogs” to trees for “security,” shooting and killing feral cats, and the beating or killing of our precious Hawaiian monk seals by certain groups for “stealing” “their” fish.
A resident’s participation in these practices only reflects on that person’s character — or lack thereof.
Cinde Fisher
Makiki
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